The $8 Martin Box - Projects That Sell - Make Money Woodworking
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- Another low-cost / high-profit fence picket item to add to your collection! Everyone loves birdhouses. Especially purple martin boxes... There's just something nostalgic to a handmade wooden martin box. And you simply can't find them anymore... they have been replaced with cheap plastic ones.
In this video, I will show you how to make this large martin box using only 4 fence pickets. Now that's what I call a home-run for any woodworking business or side hustle.
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Cut List: All material 5/8’ thick.
Slat (W) 2 1/8 x 23”
Slat (N) 1 1/2 x 23” (9)
Bottom Board 5 1/4 x 24” (2)
F & B Walls 5 1/4 x 20” (2)
Side Walls 5 1/4 x 5 1/2” (2)
Corner posts 5/8 x 5 1/4 (6)
Dividers 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 (3)
Middle Board (W) 5 1/2 x 20
Middle Board (N) 3 7/8 x 20
Gable Wall 5 1/4 x 10 1/2 (2)
Center Gable 4 1/4 x 9 3/8
Post Brace 5/8 x 2 1/2 (10)
I make furniture and stuff out of old reclaimed wood although I do alright with it as a hobby. I've recently started making birdhouse and birdfeeders and they've been selling like hotcakes!
Everytime I go and sell, I sell out pretty quick!
There are so many designs a person can do.
Where I live, bluebird houses are very popular. And they sell quick!
Thanks for sharing 👍
Yes! They sell like crazy! People love to watch birds. And the martins are great for bug control!
Where do you put them for sale?
Where do you put them for sale?
That’s amazing. Where do these birds get the money to buy a house? And how to they carry the cash while flying to buy a house? These are some smart birds you got over there!
Using their fly buy reward points.…..
Hello Matthew
I want to say Thank You, I took on this project , I made it my own style and put a base that assembles and disassembles in seconds and every time i make 1 it sells like HotCakes. This video has been a big part of gaining confidence to make stuff that ppl will actually be happy to give me $$$ for, which has also made me a better Father in being able to provide for my family. So from the bottom of my heart Thank You Sir 👍
Thank you for sharing your experience. Can you tell us how much you sell your bird houses for?
@freewillchoice8052 i sell my houses for 80$ and the stand it comes on for 30$. When I started making them the most common question I had was how do I mount it. So I made a stand that it can slide on and off . It solved the problem of how to mount it and made a way for me to upscale.
My sister lived in the city suburbs,, I built her a few bird house's ,next thing I new here she come with me an order for 25 for her neighbors. Like you I enjoy taking scrap stuff an making something out of it,or those fence boards for couple bucks each at the time ,I could make 2--3 of the little bird houses from one. Last time I went to visit I could see my little bird houses hanging all throughout her neighborhood. I enjoy your video's. Take Care & God Bless!
That's really cool. I hoped you numbered them, just for curiosity. To see how many previously homeless birds now bring your Sister's neighborhood pleasure. 😊
I didn't number them, But I date & sign anything I build. It's neat & fun to pick up something and see I built it 5--10--20 years ago or more.. @@yLeprechaun
Great looking bird house! Do you provide and type of pole/stand if requested? What is a good selling price as it's built in the video? Thanks
Your very lucky I tried no luck couldn’t give them away
Inspirational, I was looking to make some bird boxes for the garden and I have made smaller versions of these - perfect, thank you so much.
Your projects are all pretty straightforward and great ideas. You have my husband psyched to try your planters and this birdhouse
This is getting my juices flowing mate. Nearly there with the materials for my modest workshop build and this channel has really put a rocket up my backside. Really appreciate all your advice mate. Great videos
What a great video. Your ideas and easy explanations showing what to do never cease to amaze!
Thank you!
Mathew's plans, cut sheet, all of it was easy to follow and my first Purple Martin Birdhouse was a great success! Your videos have a focus on selling and marketing, which for me helps you standout in a big way. Thanks Mathew.
Another great and simple build Matthew, you are the Bob Ross of woodworking, explaining and showing how to do it all, you are the man, thanks again
This is beautiful. Interestingly enough my cousin suggested I make two birdhouses for Christmas as replicas of my mom and uncles cottages. Great ideas on how to make the shingles and siding.
I bought your plans and built one of my own very happy with the results. I think your channel is awesome I appreciate all the advice you give.
I am enjoying your series very much and have made four planters so far for my wife. showed her the bird house video and have now started building one for her. I do not make these for profit, I simply make them for the pleasure I get I get making them for my wife.
I read many of the comment's people leave, which are mostly good except the people who are confused and think they need a nice workshop and a bunch of high end tools like yours to complete these projects. I do not have a big shop and a bunch of high end tools. Work with what you have and if you sell projects, take the profits and buy Quality tools that will make you more profit. continue building your business and your skill level.
Thanks Matthew
I appreciate you doing what you do man. Definitely helps and gives me motivation for my home projects.
This is an awesome build!! My wife loves birdhouses and I have some spare time over the holiday so I intend to make one. Thanks for the great idea!
Love your videos. Really got me back into woodworking with the prices of wood the way they are.
I really appreciate your videos, great ideas and straight to the point. I install semi-custom doors here in Texas for a number of home builders. I constantly scan the scrap piles for materials. I find cedar fence off cuts, oak stair treads and nice pine. The other day I found 2 pcs of 6 X 5/8 X 16 cedar. I jumped on that quickly and cut it into 4 8ft lengths that would fit in the bed of my work truck. Today it was more cedar fence off cuts. I have enough to build at least four of those nice bird houses! Free is best for making money!
I just completed your Martin box but I scaled it down to 3 sections. Your instructional skills are a pleasure to follow and I like your material managing. After cutting the roof slats from the pickets you just happen to have a 5/8 piece left to use on posts and corners. I have made a few of your projects but I also scaled them down. Everyone that sees them want me to make one. Thank you for your videos and I look foreward to more projects.
Matthew I hardly ever make comments and maybe I should a little more but I absolutely love love love this bird house. I will be moving to my new home early August 2022 and can't wait for my garage wood shop. When I get it done I will order the plans from you to support and will build a few for my grand babies whom I know will love them! Thanks for the awesome videos and keep up the good work. It is much appreciated!!
Just came across your page and subscribed. Thanks for putting your ideas out there for community growth not only with you but for our individual businesses. This is solid stuff. 👌 look forward to future videos and will have a peak at the others.
I just built the farmhouse style planter from pallets. It took a lot longer than it should have, but it's a good starting point to get some money for fence slats. The premium slats are 4.50 at my local lumber yard, and anything of lesser quality might as well be recycled pallets. I made the cedar planter too, and it turned out really nice. Love your channel.
Matthew , I always enjoy watching your build videos. You are very creative and come up with great ideas. Using fence pickets is a brilliant idea! Keep up the great work!
Thanks Michael!
You're killing me man. One great idea after another but I'm keeping up. I have attempted to make at several of your projects in this series. I'm having fun. Thank you.
Lol. Thats the name of the game! Have fun with it. Thanks for watching!
Another terrific build and great video. You are a great addition to the woodworking community and awesome teacher !!!! THANK YOU....
Thank you very much!
OMG this is adorrrrrrable and I feel like I’ll be making a lot of these to gift for family and friends! I love this so much and always look forward to your videos. Thank you again so much for sharing …. always!
Will you also be gifting installation of the telephone Pole in their yard? just kidding😊
You are a genius my friend! The ideas and simple to follow instructions is second to none! Thank you Matthew!
Thanks Terry! Glad you enjoy the channel!
Great job ! Looks Great! I'll for sure put this on my Winter shop time build list.
So I made my $6 planters. The first one I kept to intrigue my neighbors. The second I took for the family reunion auction. Both were made with pickets we had left over from when we replaced our fence. The auction one went for $60 and would have been higher but the heat and an anniversary party kept the reunion small.
That all being said, I've invested in new tools. My husband's tools are about to hit the classics age, so figured I'd treat him to a new table saw, sliding compound miter saw with stand, and the one tool he's always wanted but couldn't bring himself to buy for himself, a pro pocket jig like in your video. Plus organizing and cleaning the garage since he is using his vacation week to help elderly disabled relatives fix their home. Can't wait to see his face at the surprises.
Thank you for these videos, they have inspired me!
Matthew,
Greetings from Detroit, MI. I followed your plans and completed my birdhouse over several weekends using five pickets. As a beginner, it was a very satisfying project, with minimal cost and probably 10 hours of work. My mistakes were not expensive. The only problem was that the pickets warp quite a bit so nothing really lined up easily. I added a scrap of Tyvek underneath the shingle strips to try to keep the rain out of the interior. I'm really happy with the result and look forward to attempting your other project ideas.
Fantastic build, looks great, easy to to make and low cost. brilliant little project. Love this channel. thank you.
Glad you like it!
I bought your design and made my first one. This is a fun project to make! Thank you.
That is so cool! Thanks again for sharing with all of us! I'm gonna have to build some of these.
Love your videos brother. I watch them all. Giving it a try myself. I look to your videos for ideas and inspiration. Thank you
Thats awesome man. Thanks for supporting the channel and glad that I can help a bit.
New to the channel and a whole lot of great projects. I saw the $8 martin box and clicked on it, then saw it was 1yr ago. So it's probably safe to say that it's now an $80 martin box
$8 in materials but he doesn’t account for the $20 in pocket hole screws.
Good morning I've been watching some of your video I am 62 years old semi-retired looking to earn a little extra money doing some work from my home have most tools needed in search of a few ideas I've always wanted to build a birdhouse or two or maybe a wood duck house something to give back to the wildlife that surrounds us thank you for your videos and sharing your knowledge and wisdom I look forward to adding a few items to my wife's craft shows I think this will be a fun time in our lives I will keep watching and listening and comment from time to time thanks again
Hello Matthew, glad to see another great project using these fence pickets. Keep up the great work. Thanks.
Thanks, will do!
Love your purple martin 🐦 house I will definitely be make and putting my own spin on it, thanks Matt I really like your program.
Great build. And many interesting techniques along the way. Thanks for sharing the video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice job! Will probably make one for the wifey. Do not need a cut list. Just the idea. I have a drafting table I draw plans on. That is half the fun. Retirement is good! Keep up the great videos!!
I made 2 of the planter boxes from one of your previous videos & they were both bought today. My first sales Ever! And I have 10 more to make that are already spoken for haha
It's all thanks to you, brother!
Lol. Thanks Jeff. I do love me some Bob Ross.
WOW! that's awesome! I've been thinking of making the planters, but where do you put them up for sale, if you don't mind sharing? thanks!
Hello Mathew . Just started watching . Thanks for all the ideas.
I really like your video. You did a great show in a short time. Very good explanation on key elements ?
Best looking, probably accomplishable by me, martin house I've found. Your etsy shop just turned my $8 birdhouse into an $18 birdhouse. Good on ya!
I am a professional woodworker, but you are showing me stuff I haven't noticed before!
DANG MAN! You gonna have to start charging these birds rent 😂
I do... 😬. LOL
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They work it off , eating mosquitos !
I made one today. Turned out great. Thanks for the video and plans on etsy.
Great video! Another project that I am looking forward to trying!
Love these videos and thank you very much for creating them..
It's beautiful, going to give it a go. Thank you.
very nice. !All my projects are made with wood that is discarded. That is what brings me joy as beauty can come from unusual sources …..which actually gives one Hope!
I absolutely love your videos! Content is always on point and your delivery is great and down to earth. There is nothing I hate more than those overly hyped, fake, cookie cutter CZcams videos. True pro when it comes to wood working and CZcams.
Thanks Travis! I just try to do me.
You have the best practical woodworking videos on CZcams these days. Please stay true to this style and resist the apparent maker's draw to CNC, Laser Cutters, and other ridiculous automation. This fills a void that is left by many others who have moved on to bigger, more expensive shops and tooling. Thanks!
Hey! Thank you and I have no plans for that. I actually have several machines in my shop that I never use for my videos. You can't teach someone by using machines that they don't have access to.
Great build, only thing I will suggest (because I am a roofer) is overlap the from bottom to top so water sheds off and the birdhouse last a lot longer. But this is great thanks for the content, I seen a lot of your videos.
Hey Matthew,
This is a great diy, many thanks. I made several of the full size ones and got some requests for a half size one. I added my own twist and some humorous signage…
Keep those helpful tutorials coming!👍
As Always… Your Tha Man! Thanks to your videos and breaking it down, I just completed shutters for the outside of my brick home, which I just finished painting. Along with planter boxes for under the front windows. ALL at a fraction of the anticipated expense due to the use of cedar pickets! Thanks again for your videos.
Fantastic! Glad I could help!
@@MatthewPeechWoodworking speaking of......I made one demo cedar picket shutter and it was a hit. My concern is that pickets are too thin and I'm worried that they'll warp/bow/twist over time. Should I use 1x cedar instead? It's a lot more expensive but I want to deliver a quality product. Particularly with shutters as they will be visible for all to see and (hopefully) for a very long time. thoughts?
i would add a hole in each gable end for more nesting spots inside the roof.....screwing down the last shingle on the back for cleaning
Another great project, Matthew~! I just picked up this one and your garden 4-pack. Good stuff...thanks much~!
Thanks for supporting the channel Andrew!
My dad decided to make one back in the early 70's. 3 levels, 9 boxes per side. Made it out of 1/2 inch plywood. Think weighed a ton.
This could also be slightly altered to make a toy stable. My daughter would have loved that when she was little!
Great vid as usual Matthew 👍
Great Idea!!! Run with it!
@@MatthewPeechWoodworking 😀👍
Just finished up this project with your Etsy plans and it turned out really cool. My wife laid claim to it right after the 3 walls were attached. So I guess this one will be zero profit. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thank you very much for sharing this beautiful video! You are very talented.
Thank you!
In case nobody tells you today, you're amazing! Thank you for sharing all of these plans AND for being even more phenomenal and breaking all of it down so perfectly! You're an extraordinary human being!
That is a beautiful project. Think I'll surprise my wife with one. Thanks for another great video.
Thanks! Build a couple... lol.
AWESOME,,,GLAD TO HAVE FOUND YOUR CHANNEL
This little bird-house looks great. Thanks again for the tips and congrats to the winner of your game. Have a great week. Enjoy.
Thanks Renier! You too!
Thanks for the project it was fun making with my son
btw i save all of your videos to my best of the best collection I LOVE YOUR STYLE it is very down to earth
Wow birdhouses. I have not made one since I was a boy scout. True I dont see them nearly at all in stores and if I do they best for only finches or other very small birds. i can get behind this type of project.
Absolutely beautiful job
Mathew, this is awesome! Thanks for all you do for the Woodworking Community. This is what has been going on in the Beekeeping Community also. Lots of information sharing and new friends. A Cut List would be helpful.
Ironically I raise bees as well. Hey so sorry I forgot to put it in! I just put it in the description.
It has.
Click on the info section. Scroll down. Full cut lists are provided for all of these projects in this series. :)
@@MatthewPeechWoodworking Thank you very much. I have been designing Horizontal Long Hives for Langstroth Deep Frames. I have sold a couple locally, but not sure how to ship them cheaply. I have been trying to think out of the box and came up with my own 9 frame 3 tier Observation Hives. 4 Different designs and have made 1 prototype so far.
I think your doing a great job mate.Thanks a bunch!
I love your videos. They are very informative & creative! I wish I had your work shop, tools & the talent you possess!! You are quite the craftsman!
Thank you. But remember I started out working in someone else’s shop and borrowing tools and worked myself up to this point. Anyone can do it with a lot of hard work and determination.
@@MatthewPeechWoodworking I believe you! Thanks!
Hola! 🖐 That is a REALLY COOL project, great job 👏👏👏 Like your videos, keep them coming. Take care and have a good one, Adios! 👊
Always wanted to build these but never had a clue, thanks Matt!!!!!!!!! Or Matthew?
I love this project and looking forward to making them to sell. Thank you so much.
Thanks Teresa! They are fun to build!
Matthew, Thank you for your content.I have been finding your chanell to be invaluable resource
One thing you might want to add to the design is a few small holes or cuts in the floor of each compartment. Will allow for any liquid that gets in (either rain, dewm or from the birds) to drain out and increase the birdhouses life a bit and its pretty easy to do. Overall awesome project, would be kind of fun to see a small railing on the front like a southern plantation house. Not sure if that would dissuade the birds though.
Actually its kinda necessary to prevent the young Martins from falling that might wonder out of the box! It won't dissuade the adult Purple Martins one bit!
That setup for cutting the notches in the shingles was such a nice and simple but very effective solution and I was totally unaware my saw had a depth stop lol I've always just set the table saw way low.
It is one of the most handy attachments that most dont know about. Great for cutting half lap joints.
Great build thx for sharing and the info Great project
Very cool, thank you for sharing. Good educational video. Cheers
I love this bird house really cool. Keep them coming boss your doing great!
Thanks! Will do Glen!
Really nice thanks I’m going to build one myself
Assume build ! Looks like I will be dragging out the MC and buying the plans . Thanks for the YTV !
Really enjoy all the project ideas
I love this build! Definitely something we will be making and selling, thank you for videos you make 🙏
Great build. Please keep the money making videos coming.
That's the plan!
Just bump to this video, new to this channel but the builds looks pretty awesome, nice one👍
So great … thank you for sharing. I do not have your work equipment…But I will try to do it.!!Greetings from Rabat Morocco.
You are a magician buddy. This is amazing. Did you 3-picket planter a couple weeks ago and people are literally freaking out about the cost & quality of it. This birdhouse is beautiful and you make it look easy. Going to hit one of these up soon. Can't wait to customize it as well. Thanks Matthew!
how much are you getting/charging for the planters?
Thanks Paul! Yes people love the planters! And customizing them is the fun part! If you made them to match a customers house... You could make a fortune.
Love the wood Mailboxes I have seen made too!
Great build, thanks for sharing 🤘
I have done a similar build but as rural mailboxes. They sale as quick as I can make them. I am retired so I do not mass produce, just like turning scrap wood into something usable. The money is nice too :).
Very handsome Martin house Matthew. Keep killing it my friend. 👊😎
Why thank you!
That's awesome brother. Can't wait to make one!!
Awesome channel !!! I'm new to the channel but very impressed at how you teach people what and how to make things to sell in Thier local Facebook market ...One if not the favorite channel I watch....thank you for a helpful and unselfish program I think u will have great success with it
Thank you!
@@MatthewPeechWoodworking I wanted to ask you have you gotten any feed back on the corn hole boxes? I'm wondering how well they are selling across the country.I live in a farm community and thought about building a few but in my area there are alot of old times that still love horseshoes and washers .I have a DeWalt scroll saw as well as a few other basic wood working tools .I've been looking for some small projects that might sell.It seems to me that simple wood boxes of any kind are easy to sell.I use to get alot of pallets and break them down and plane the boards but lately seems everyone is grabbing the pallets....Great content as always I enjoy your channel !!!!
Thanks for the awesome advice and ideas..
You are amazing! Thank you for the great content.
Amazing what creativity will allow with these types of builds there really is no limit. Bird houses/feeders are a blast to create and the artistry that goes into it is a lot of fun. How do you sell your art work?
I made this last week. I didn't get the plans but with the cut list and the video it came out pretty good.
Bro thank you so much for this I'm going to so copy these and sell them there awesome
You hit a home run with this one! This house is beautiful!!!
Thanks Donna!